Architects:Anonym

Area:650m²

Year:2024

Photographs:DOF SKYGROUND

Lead Architects:Phongphat Ueasangkhomset

Category:Houses

Design Team:Parnduangjai Roojnawate

City:Bangkok

Country:Thailand

Text description provided by the architects. Located in a dense residential district of Bangkok, Prachauthit Road, FN House reveals a bold, massive front yet humbly connects with the neighborhood through its materials. The rigid stacking geometric form on the exterior gives bold and noticeable visuals, whilst inside the house is activated by the factor of contrast of its form by having a curved mezzanine balcony as a surprise architectural element. Together with using light tone materials, this creates a pleasant ambience for the premises to blend with the natural existing and surrounding context.

Due to the narrowly-shaped site, which is only 500 square metres and very close to the neighbor's fence in the south, main living spaces are intentionally elevated by about 1.2 metres from the ground to not only resolve the site's constraints but also improve visual condition as well as take advantage of the neighbor's huge garden view. Simultaneously, the northern side of the property belongs to the same owner, which, fortunately, encourages the house to have a double-height glazed façade and spacious opening without any limitation of privacy concerns. With the benefits of the double volume, natural light, and ventilation, both penetrate the living space and create an ambience or experience very specific to the time of day and year.

Owners' personality inspired the selection of materials, they love authenticity with neat order and a good share of tactile sense, thus FN House began as a spatial experiment of raw yet detailed rustic tropical aesthetic. The contrast combination of grey polished mortar and natural rust-colored finishing throughout the house dissolves the threshold between interior and exterior spaces. Despite its rustic textures, the interior of the house is designed to soften the mood and grow the homey atmosphere with a combination of warm white paneling, white travertine tile, and natural oak expressing tenderness under the natural light. Inevitably, to complete the owner's need for tidiness, this house was built with meticulous construction details, consistently mindful material usage, and well-organized alignment.

Even once house construction work is completed, the users' lives and experience in it have just started. This house is a never-ending space that leaves room for materials to grow along with life within this place through the passing years, through tropical rain and western sun. A house with time and space is incomplete; it is a complete growing experience.

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